abandonwareとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From abandon +‎ -ware.

発音

名詞

abandonware (countable and uncountable, plural abandonwares)

1. (software, chiefly video games) A software product that is no longer updated or maintained, or whose copyright is no longer defended or which is no longer marketed even by the company who made it.
   • 1996 October 12, John Hentsch, “Re: Converting file areas (one more time)”, in alt.bbs.wildcat‎ (Usenet), retrieved 8 February 2017, message-ID :

     RR> Never heard of Wildscan. Is it shareware or is there a evaluation
     RR> version available?
     It's abandonware ala Joe Martin inc.:)

   • 2014, Aaron Schwabach, Internet and the Law: Technology, Society, and Compromises, Bloomsbury, →ISBN, page 1:

     Abandonware is software that is no longer being sold or supported by its author, copyright owner, or licensed distributor. Software that is still being sold, but no longer supported, is sometimes also referred to as abandonware.

   • 2017, Paper accepted, toolkit abandoned., “Paper accepted, toolkit abandoned.”, in Department of Digital Design and Information Studies‎, Aarhus, Denmark, archived from the original on 15 October 2025, page 1, column 2:

     Such toolkits developed in research projects are deemed to end as abandonware where the authors stop working on it and reported bugs will not get fixed after the associated paper was accepted.

関連する語

派生した語

• → Dutch: abandonware
• → Italian: abandonware
• → Polish: abandonware
• → Spanish: abandonware

参考

• announcementware
• free software
• public domain
• vaporware